Improvement in hand seed-planters



'W. BULLOCK.

Hand-Seeder.

' No. 9,381. Patented Nov. 2. 1852.

AM. PHOTF-LITHD, CO NY, (OSBORNE?! IIIOCESSJ UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

WVILLIAM BULLOCK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND SEED-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 9,381, dated November2, 1852.

' same, in which- Figure 1 represents my machine as aside elevation,consisting of a seinicyliudrical receiver, a, with theconducting-receivers b, on one side; I), conducting-pipes for the grainfrom the receivers b to the casting 0. This casting has fourdischargers, d, which holds the grain untildropped tothe ground by meansof the action of the jaws, one being stationary, while the other ismovable. The movable one is secured at the point 6 by a bolt, and aprojecting arm, f, of the same is connected to a pitman, h, by means ofthe rods g. The pitinan h is attached to the crank t of the cylindricalpiece j. To this piece are attached the arms it, having at their extremeend an arrangement for raising the grain.

Fig. 2 is a plan or top view, showing the grain-receptacle a, receiversl), and their counect on with the pipes 11' by dotted lines, arms 7.",and piece j, with the crank tand attachment.

Fig. 3 is a top view of the casting 0, dischargers (I, and arm f, andconnecting-bar l, to insure a uniform discharge of the grain.

Action Place the grain in the receptacle a,

turn the piecej back, (drawing represents the arm k as having dischargedthe grain,) and as the arm is is drawn back the jaws of the dischargers(I open and allow the grain to escape.

This is effected by means of the pitman-rods, 85c.

What I claim herein as new and of myinvention, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s-- 1. A seed-planter having a tube or tubes,b, whichin operating the planter is or are closed when placed in the ground, andso arranged that it or they can be opened White in the ground, for thepurpose of letting the seeds out.

2. The arrangement of two or more tubes, 1) and I), in such a mannerthat the operator can place the seeds in a hill at specified distancesapart.

3. The feeders k, havinga sloping cavity at the outer ends, and being soarranged that as the seeds are carried up they will slide outand passinto the tubes.

4. The arrangement of the feeders k and jaws e and d, or valves, of thetubes b, in connection with the handle by which the machine is carried,so that the feeders and jaws or valves can be operated by the samehandwith which the machine is carried.

WM. BULLOCK.

\Vitnesses I. B. MURPHY, JoEL 000K.

